Greetings awesome Deadsplinterati!
I hope you are all having a great week so far. Better than me at least. My back is all jacked up from IDK, sleeping funny? Sitting weirdly for too long? Being 47? WHO KNOWS!
But I somehow hurt myself today…
And urgent care gave me some painkillers…
But maybe this kind would be better…
They also gave me some muscle relaxers…
Thanks for your continued support of DUAN and Deadsplinter!
ill just go for the lowhanging fruit you missed
When I was a senior in high school the administration VERY unwisely decided to let the student body vote for what the Prom song should be. This came in second. In first place was the Who’s “Teenage Wasteland.” I forget what the other songs proposed were but they went with number 6, and though I remember it was number 6 I can’t remember what the song actually was, probably a syrupy slow dance.
I only know this because one of my cronies was the Student Council President and she spilled the beans.
One of my readily accessible bits of trivia (which was admittedly more impressive before smartphones) was to offer up that the actual title of The Who song is “Baba O’Riley”, named in part after spiritual guru Meher Baba and musician Terry Riley. The track was originally intended to be part of a rock opera follow-up to Tommy.
I had totally forgotten that! In my high school there was a girl (young woman I guess you’d say now) named Barbara O'[name redacted] who was immediately dubbed Baba O’Riley.
Excellent! Low hanging fruit is very on brand for me!
Rainbow Kitten Surprise Painkillers
Before he was King Khan…Black Jaspers – No Brain, No Pain
Speaking as someone with a lifetime of them, back troubles are no fun. Don’t lie down though! Get up and get moving to loosen that sucker up.
Robert Finley – I Can Feel Your Pain
Surprisingly, Pain has the Antidote…
Marianne Faithful – Sister Morphine
Beach Bunny – Painkiller
Did your doctor prescribe this?
I love how the Rolling Stones were such chainsmokers that they couldn’t go three minutes without a cigarette. Although maybe that was just part of their bad boys’ image.
So I seem to have completely f’ed up the edit to my response. Here’s the song:
Road trip to see @Luigi Vuoto
Shudder To Think – Goat
“Y’all got heavier since last week.”
How could I not include this album title?
Happy Mondays – Pills, Thrills And Bellyaches
Speaking of bitter PiLs to swallow:
Public Image Ltd, “Rise”
Oh, and more directly so, but still keeping the Englishness in there:
The Jam – “The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)”
Pain that I’m used to -Depeche Mode
FGTH had you completely covered.